Part 1: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7pm Part 2: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 7pm Part 3: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 7pm Part 4: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 7pm 8367 Santa Clara Dr, Dallas TX 75218 You are welcome to join us as early as 6:30pm for tea and visiting. Feel free to come to any one, some or all sessions. Following is a little about this teaching and the teacher who is presenting: Our soul

longs to find its way home to what is real and true in us in a complete way. This then engages not just our mind and our heart but, importantly, also our body. The Diamond Approach® recognizes the importance of the body through its primary practice of inquiry as well as meditation, breath work and movement practices. In this teaching, we will explore: What is the reality of the body? What is the body’s relationship to the soul and our spiritual journey? Through experiential exercises, we will begin to see that our body reveals the truth, exposing our unconscious beliefs reflected in our body image, posture, and attitudes we hold toward our body and our self. We begin to understand that living a real life is not separate from embodying essential presence. Rick Gaines has been a student of Hameed Ali and the Diamond Approach since 1984 and completed thirteen years of teacher training in 1999 to become an ordained teacher of that work. As a member of the teaching staff of the Ridhwan Foundation, he has taught the Diamond Approach to individuals and groups locally, out-of-state and overseas. This offering is open to the public. A $5 love offering is suggested. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Annette Anderson at AndersonAnnetteS@aol.com or 214-660-4278 if you plan to attend.

March 22-24, 2013
Friday: 7pm – 10pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am – 6pm

Hilton – Houston Plaza
6633 Travis St.
Houston, TX 77030

The judge, superego, or inner critic shapes and limits our daily life. This psychic entity, which praises, accuses, promises, and threatens, is forever looking over our shoulder to see if we measure up. Invading our relationships and undermining our self-esteem, self-judgment is also the primary force interfering with our personal spiritual work.

This workshop will begin to directly address the inner judge using principles of the Diamond Approach®. Through embodied awareness (to support presence) and open-ended inquiry (to bring about understanding), we will learn to recognize and confront the assumptions and principles that keep self-judgment in place. We will cultivate aspects of our true nature that antidote self judgment: compassion, will, and strength. Most important, we will practice disengaging from the judgment process through understanding and deliberate action.

The sessions will include meditation, lecture, discussion, and experiential/movement exercises. The work shop is open to everyone with an interest in and a willingness to confront habitual patterns of self-attack. Bring your courage, compassion, and curiosity.

Teacher
Byron Brown has been a certified Ridhwan teacher since 1990. He leads groups, works with individuals, and trains teachers in the Ridhwan School. He has taught workshops on the superego across the US and in Europe for the last thirteen years. His book, Soul without Shame, was published in 1999 by Shambhala.

Register
For more information, contact Annette Anderson at 214-660-4278 or andersonannettes@aol.com.  Also visit www.soulwithoutshame.com.

Click here to download a PDF of the flyer

DVD Showing
Part 1: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7pm
Part 2: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7pm
Part 3: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7pm

8367 Santa Clara Dr, Dallas TX 75218

Just as we need a mirror to see our own face, there are aspects of our true self that we can only come to know when they are reflected to us by another. Now you can experience two exceptional spiritual teachers as they engage in a dialogue about the power of sacred relationship as a vehicle for discovery and transformation with Conscious Love: The Power of Revelation.  A.H. Almaas, creator of The Diamond Approach, and Cynthia Bourgeault, an Episcopalian priest and author of Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, meet for the first time to explore how certain forms of human relationship can function as conduits to the secrets of Being. Join them to explore:

• What happens when spiritual illumination is the basis of a relationship
• How love pulls us into the intrinsic, underlying collectivity beyond our perceived separateness
• Union: how two souls become one in conscious love
• How relationships can both express illumination and reveal further awakening
• Intimacy and unity in friendships, teacher-student relationships, and marriages
• Uncovering selfless, unconditional, divine love
• Invoking divine presence within our relationships and communities

Almaas and Bourgeault guide us into the state of consciousness beyond separateness, an underlying union unlimited by the boundaries of space and time.

Please contact Annette Anderson at AndersonAnnetteS@aol.com or 214-660-4278 if you plan to attend.

DVD Showing – Part 1 Saturday, February 16, 2013 9:30am-12:30pm Dawn Moutain Buddhist Temple 1925 Richmond Houston, TX This will be the first of four segments of a recent introductory retreat taught by Rick Gaines, one of our local teachers. The retreat was described as follows: “Our soul longs to find its way home to what is real and true in us in a complete way. This then engages not just our mind and our heart but, importantly, also our body. The Diamond Approach recognizes the importance of the body through its primary practice of inquiry as well as meditation, breath work and movement practices. In this weekend, we will explore: What is the reality of the body? What is the body’s relationship to the soul and our spiritual journey? Through experiential exercises, we will begin to see that our body reveals the truth, exposing our unconscious beliefs reflected in our body image, posture, and attitudes we hold toward our body and our self. We begin to understand that living a real life is not separate from embodying

essential presence.” For this segment, there will be a small exercise at the end of the video, so if you wish to participate, please plan your time accordingly. Please contact Michael Lassoff at mrlassoff@gmail.com if you plan to attend or if you have any questions.

January 19 & 20, 2013
8367 Santa Clara Drive, Dallas, TX 75218

Embarking on any true path is not separate from learning to be real, learning to be yourself, and learning to live a real life. The alternative is to continue to live on the surface of life constrained to our familiar sense of self in consensus reality, the world of lies.

This endeavor to live a real life is not easy, it demands real effort, requiring us to uncover our soul’s true strength and steadfast determination. These qualities are essential in order to be open to the truth of who we are and to live our life accordingly. Being real is not easy, there is no easy way. A real life is not the result of doing spiritual work, it IS the work. We need to activate our inherent strength and will to engage our real life.

Teacher
Rick Gaines has been a student of Hameed Ali and the Diamond Approach since 1984 and completed thirteen years of teacher training in 1999 to become an ordained teacher of that work. As a member of the teaching staff of the Ridhwan Foundation, he has taught the Diamond Approach to individuals and groups locally, out-of-state and overseas.

Teachings
The Diamond Approach®, a contemporary path of spiritual development, is a powerful and effective spiritual path for self-realization and self-actualization. This path arose out of an objective need, available to anyone who aspires to recog-nize their True Nature and to actually live that realization of True Nature in our modern Western society. It was intro-duced and developed by Hameed Ali (writing under the pen-name A.H. Almaas) over the past 35 years. It is a living, evolving teaching.

Register
For more information, contact Annette Anderson at 214-660-4278 or AndersonAnnetteS@aol.com.

Click here to download a PDF of the flyer

DVD Showing – Part 2 Thursday, December 18, 2012 7pm

8367 Santa Clara Dr, Dallas TX 75218

“From the beginning of our spiritual work there is something deeper, some deep intelligence, some profound intelligence that underlies all of our human existence, in fact all of existence, that is working to reveal itself. There is a force, there is an intelligence, there is a consciousness, a dynamic, living intelligence who is inherently functioning in such a way to reveal itself. And it appears to us as our interest in liberation. It appears to us as our interest and dedication. It appears to us as the interest in practice or spiritual work. And when the insights happen, we might own them. We think, “I got the insight”, when in fact it is this force that has simply managed to get through, with a burst of light and insight.”

Almaas explores this mystery through teaching and inquiry held at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California in January, 2012. Join in this exploration of mystery with A. H. Almaas, and experience his passionate love in this process of inquiry in presence.

Please contact Annette Anderson at AndersonAnnetteS@aol.com  if you plan to attend.

DVD Showing – Part 1 Thursday, November 13, 7pm 8367 Santa Clara Dr, Dallas TX 75218 “From the beginning of our spiritual work there is something deeper, some deep intelligence, some profound intelligence that underlies all of our human existence, in fact all of existence,

that is working to reveal itself. There is a force, there is an intelligence, there is a consciousness, a dynamic, living intelligence who is inherently functioning in such a way to reveal itself. And it appears to us as our interest in liberation. It appears to us as our interest and dedication. It appears to us as the interest in practice or spiritual work. And when the insights happen, we might own them. We think, “I got the insight”, when in fact it is this force that has simply managed to get through, with a burst of light and insight.” Almaas explores this mystery through teaching and inquiry held at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California in January, 2012. Join in this exploration of mystery with A. H. Almaas, and experience his passionate love in this process of inquiry in presence. Please contact Annette Anderson at AndersonAnnetteS@aol.com if you plan to attend.

DVD Showing – Part 2
Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:30am-12:30pm

Dawn Moutain Buddhist Temple
1925 Richmond
Houston, TX

“From the beginning of our spiritual work there is something deeper, some deep intelligence, some profound intelligence that underlies all of our human existence, in fact all of existence, that is working to reveal itself. There is a force, there is an intelligence, there is a consciousness, a dynamic, living intelligence who is inherently functioning in such a way to reveal itself. And it appears to us as our interest in liberation. It appears to us as our interest and dedication. It appears to us as the interest in practice or spiritual work. And when the insights happen, we might own them. We think, “I got the insight”, when in fact it is this force that has simply managed to get through, with a burst of light and insight.”

Almaas explores this mystery through teaching and inquiry held at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California in January, 2012. Join in this exploration of mystery with A. H. Almaas, and experience his passionate love in this process of inquiry in presence.

Please contact Michael Lassoff at mrlassoff@gmail.com if you plan to attend.

DVD Showing Tuesday, October 23 at 7pm; tea and visiting at 6:30pm Home of Annette & Chuck Anderson, 8367 Santa Clara Dr., Dallas, TX 75218 Description This is a DVD of a book talk by A.H. Almaas for the release of Diamond Heart Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery. A.H. Almaas brings our attention to the ways we can approach our lives as a practice in order to actualize our potential as human beings. His further explorations on the relationships between the modern sciences and spirituality lead us to the possibilities of discovering a universe of experience and mystery that

is usually not available in our ordinary lives. Please contact Annette Anderson at AndersonAnnetteS@aol.com if you plan to attend or would like more information.  

DVD Showing – Part 1 Saturday, October 13, 2012 9:30am-12:30pm

Dawn Moutain Buddhist Temple 1925 Richmond Houston, TX

“From the beginning of our spiritual work there is something deeper, some deep intelligence, some profound intelligence that underlies all of our human existence, in fact all of existence, that is working to reveal itself. There is a force, there is an intelligence, there is a consciousness, a dynamic, living intelligence who is inherently functioning in such a way to reveal itself. And it appears to us as our interest in liberation. It appears to us as our interest and dedication. It appears to us as the interest in practice or spiritual work. And when the insights happen, we might own them. We think, “I got the insight”, when in fact it is this force that has simply managed to get through, with a burst of light and insight.”

Almaas explores this mystery through teaching and inquiry held at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California in January, 2012. Join in this exploration of mystery with A. H. Almaas, and experience his passionate love in this process of inquiry in presence.

Please contact Michael Lassoff at mrlassoff@gmail.com if you plan to attend.